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Bring the Festival of (In)approprition to your own venue or institution!

Want to screen the Festival of (In)appropriation close to home? You can! For a $250.00 programming fee, we will send you a high-quality digital file (QuickTime) with one entire show—choose from Festivals #5, #6, #7, #8, and #9—along with program notes, publicity images, and other useful materials. All programs curated by Jaimie Baron, Greg Cohen, and Lauren Berliner, with the support of Los Angeles Filmforum.

Click on the images below to learn more about the line-up for each Traveling Show program. Then click the Pay Now button at the top of each program to make your payment to Los Angeles Filmforum via PayPal. Once your payment is received, we’ll contact you to arrange the digital transfer of all materials to your organization.

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Premiered November 11, 2012 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Curated by Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner, and Greg Cohen. Sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum. “The appropriation of mainstream/commercial culture by artists is nothing new — you can trace it back through Negativland, Craig Baldwin and other post–hip-hop culture jammers of the ’80s and ’90s; Guy Debord and…

Premiered February 16, 2014 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Curated by Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner, and Greg Cohen. Sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum. “Anyone weary of Paranormal Activity’s take on the found-footage genre need look no further than the Egyptian’s Spielberg Theatre for a healthy dose of the real thing. Hosted by L.A. Filmforum…

Premiered February 15, 2015 at The Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Curated by Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner, and Greg Cohen. Sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum. “Conceptually and formally, collage shapes every aspect of contemporary culture, from mainstream political campaigns to amateur avant-garde auteurs making shot-by-shot recreations of montage sequence from Footloose (1984) and layering it over the original.…

The 9th edtion of The Festival of (In)appropriation will premiere at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on February 19, 2017! Curators Jaimie Baron, Greg Cohen, and Lauren Berliner are delighted to present the latest edition of the Festival of (In)appropriation. Sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum, the program features an astonishing variety and complexity of moving-image appropriation art,…